Authors of the best publications of our institutes are acknowledged each year. On 5 March, 2025, Zsolt Boda, General Director, handed out the awards at the annual meeting of the Centre for Social Sciences, followed by brief presentations of the research findings.
We inform our partners that due to a government decision, our research centre was integrated into ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. As of 1 August 2025, our legal name is ELTE Centre for Social Sciences
Featured news
Attila Bartha and Violetta Zentai have just published a new article entitled "Long-Term Care and Gender Equality: Fuzzy-Set Ideal Types of Care Regimes in Europe" in Social Inclusion.
Xénia Farkas and Márton Bene have recently published an article entitled "Images, Politicians, and Social Media: Patterns and Effects of Politicians’ Image-Based Political Communication Strategies on Social Media" in the International Journal of Press/Politics.
Gergő Medve-Bálint and his colleagues have recently published an article entitled "North and South, East and West: Is It Possible to Bridge the Gap?" in Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union edited by Coman, Ramona, Amandine Crespy, és Vivien Ann Schmidt (Cambridge University Press)
Pál Susánszky and his colleagues have recently published an article entitled "Radical-Right Political Activism on the Web and the Challenge for European Democracy: A Perspective from Eastern and Central Europe" in Democracy and Fake News Information Manipulation and PostTruth Politics edited by Serena Giusti and Elisa Piras (Routledge).
SOCIOLOGY, First published 29 August 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520941690 Impact factor: 3,068.
Dániel Mikecz has recently published an article entitled "Claims-making and Morality: The Case of Hungarian Solidarity Movements" in the Czech Journal of Political Science.
Dániel Mikecz has recently published an article entitled "Civil society as a counterbalance to democratic backlash? The civil society master frame and discursive opportunities of politically active civil organizations in Hungary" in the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.
Veronika Patkós has recently published an article entitled "Wearing rose-coloured glasses. The happiness effect of party attachments in Europe" (co-authored with Eszter Farkas) in the Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Tamás Barczikay and his colleagues have recently published an article entitled "An investigation of a partial Dutch disease in Botswana" in Resources Policy.
Our results
July, 2026
Ivett Szalma, Lóránt Pélyi, Orsolya Udvari, Kata Mária Udvarhelyi-Tóth, Erika Kispéter, Enikő Kubinyi (2026) Dogs, Motherhood, and Reproductive Choices: A Qualitative Study of Women’s Decision-Making in a Pronatalist Country. Journal of family Issues, First published Jul 7, 2026
June 2026
Katona, N., & Gábriel, D. (2026). The quiet collapse: Authoritarian neoliberalism and the crisis of care of older people in Hungary. Economy and Society, 55(2), 301–323. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2026.2632445
May 2026
Written by Andrea Szabó, András Bozóki, and Zoltán Gábor Szűcs-Zágoni
March 2026
Benedek István (2026): Polarizing transition? Opposition strategies and the rise of Péter Magyar and the Respect and Freedom Party (TISZA) in Hungary. Comparative European Politics.
